Winnie the Pooh Meets Tarzan

Poster for Winnie the Pooh Meets Tarzan

Winnie the Pooh Meets Tarzan is another motion picture by DisneyJSman. It appeared on YouTube on Saturday 11-7-2009. A new remake version without Timon and Pumbaa was created and appeared on YouTube on Saturday 4-7-2012. An upcoming remake remastered will be created by Daniel Esposito and it will appeared on Odysee.

Plot

In the late 1880s, an English couple and their infant son are shipwrecked off the Congolese coast. The adults build a treehouse but are killed by Sabor, a leopard. Kala, a female western gorilla who recently lost her own child to Sabor, finds the human infant and takes it back to the jungle to raise as her own, despite the disapproval of her mate, Kerchak. Kala names him Tarzan.

Years later, Tarzan begins to befriend other animals, including a young female gorilla named Terk and the paranoid male elephant, Tantor. Tarzan finds himself treated differently because of his different physique, so he makes great efforts to improve himself. As a young man, Tarzan manages to kill Sabor with a crude spear he made, gaining Kerchak's reluctant respect.

The gorilla troop's peaceful life is interrupted by the arrival of a team of human explorers from England, consisting of Professor Porter, his daughter, Jane, and their hunter escort Clayton. The explorers are looking to study gorillas. Jane accidentally becomes separated from the group and chased by a baboon troop, with Tarzan saving her. He recognizes that she is human, just like he is. Jane leads Tarzan back to their camp, where Porter and Clayton both take great interest in him; the former in terms of scientific progress while the latter secretly hopes to have Tarzan lead him to the gorillas so that he can capture them and return with them to England. Despite Kerchak's warnings to be wary of the humans, Tarzan continues to return to the camp, where Porter, Clayton, and Jane teach him to speak English properly as well as what the human world is like. He and Jane begin to fall in love. However, the English explorers have difficulty convincing Tarzan to lead them to the gorillas due to Tarzan's fear of Kerchak.

The explorers' ship soon returns to retrieve them. Jane asks Tarzan to return with them to England, but Tarzan, in turn, asks Jane to stay with him when Jane says it is unlikely they will ever return. Clayton convinces Tarzan that Jane will stay with him forever as long as he leads them to the gorillas. Tarzan agrees and leads the trio to the nesting grounds while Terk and Tantor lure Kerchak away to avoid having him attack the humans. Porter and Jane are excited to mingle with the gorillas, but Kerchak returns and attacks the humans when he sees them. Tarzan is forced to hold Kerchak at bay while the humans escape. Kerchak accuses Tarzan of betraying the troop, and Tarzan runs off from his family in fear. Kala takes Tarzan to the treehouse where she found him, shows him his true past, and says that she wants him to be happy whatever he decides. Tarzan puts on a suit that belonged to his father, signifying his decision to go to England.

When Tarzan boards the ship with Jane and Porter the next day, they are all ambushed by Clayton and his traitorous band of stowaway thugs. Clayton hopes and plans to seize the gorillas now that he knows where the nesting grounds are and locks Tarzan, Jane, and Porter away to prevent them from interfering. Tarzan manages to escape with the help of Terk and Tantor, and he returns to the jungle. Clayton fatally shoots Kerchak and battles Tarzan across the treetops, although Tarzan spares his life. After Tarzan traps Clayton with vines, Clayton angrily attempts to free himself but falls from the tree with a vine tangled around his neck, hanging and killing him. Kerchak, with his dying breath, finally forgives Tarzan, accepts him as his son, and names him the new leader of the gorillas. The rest of the gorillas are freed after scaring away the rest of Clayton’s men.

The next day, Porter and Jane prepare to leave on the ship while Tarzan stays behind with the gorillas. As the ship leaves shore, Porter encourages his daughter to stay with the man she loves, and Jane jumps overboard to return to shore; Porter shortly follows her. The Porters, now gifted with the ability to hear what animals are saying, reunite with Tarzan and his family and embark on their new life together.

Transcript

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Trivia

• Buster Bunny, Babs Bunny, Tom, Huckleberry, Becky, Genie, and Injurin' Joe guest star in both versions of this film.
• Timon and Pumbaa have originally guest starred in the previous film, but have since been removed from the remake versions, especially due to Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa's Adventures of Tarzan being planned to be rebooted by Yakko Warner.
• Buzzie, Flaps, Dizzy, and Ziggy, Jiminy Cricket, and Zazu are absent in all versions of this film, due to their guest appearances in Ash Ketchum Meets Tarzan.
• In one scene in the movie, Injurin' Joe mentions Bowser Koopa's name while they sail off to hunt the gorillas.
• This film was originally dedicated simply to Nigel Hawthorne (the voice of Professor Porter), as he had died on December 26, 2001. In fact, the original Tarzan was Hawthorne's last film role. The remake, however, was dedicated not only to him, but to Robert B. Sherman (who wrote the songs for the Winnie the Pooh featurettes).
• Injurin' Joe works for Clayton.
• Unlike DisneyJSman's original version of the film, Daniel Esposito's upcoming remake version will include Tarzan II, making it longer than the original version.